Why You Should Start Keeping Bees

I don’t think I have met anyone who doesn’t like the taste of honey on their morning slice of bread.

It’s hard to believe that such a wonderful product is provided for free by Mother Nature. Well not necessarily for free; it comes from the hard work of the honey bees. Bees are so hard working that they don’t just stop with producing honey. They also provide us with the have the following;

Pollination

Bee bread Production

Propolis

Bees Wax

Royal jelly

Bee Venom for medical use (Apitherapy)

Honey (Well, this was already mentioned above)

The bees proved to be very beneficial to humans leading them to try to domesticate wild bees . They made attempts to keep them in wooden boxes, hollow logs, pottery vessels and woven straw baskets/ Skeps. Traces of beeswax were found in pot sherds throughout the Middle East beginning about 7000 BCE.

Beekeeping or apiculture is the maintenance of honey bee in order to extract honey, pollen and other bee products for income generation and food. Bee keeping is also kept for medicinal functions that are found in honey. It is an activity that can be done by both men and women. The Kenyan government encourages the youth to take up Bee Farming so as to generate income for themselves and empower their communities.

It is relatively affordable to keep bees with a one hive going for only Ksh 3,000. You do not need to have a big land to keep bees as the bee hive is small and can be hanged on top of a tree.